uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic … mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i) pre-pandemic population health and poverty, ii) air pollution, and iii … the distribution of pre-pandemic infant mortality had 21 excess deaths per 10,000 residents in 1918 relative to cities in …

technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … adaptations that may be useful in the coming decades. There are three primary findings. First, the mortality impact of days with a … 14,000 fewer fatalities annually than if the pre-1960 impacts of high temperature on mortality still prevailed. Second …

1.3 times higher than their population share. Furthermore, by combining the spatial distribution of mortality with the …-graded neighborhoods display a sharper increase in mortality, driven by blacks, while no pre-treatment differences are detected. Thus, we …

This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and … mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have continued up to 2019, consistent with continued investments in health …

infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

exposure, this study estimates the causal effect of long-term ozone exposure on respiratory mortality. By employing an … mortality by 0.062 0.066 standard deviations. The findings indicate that long-term ozone exposure increases mortality from both … that the respiratory mortality rate responds to long-term ozone exposure nonlinearly, and that there is a critical …

the English. In contrast, age specific mortality rates are similar in the two countries with an even higher risk among the … English after age 65. Our second aim explains large financial gradients in mortality in the two countries. Among 55-64 year … evidence using a long panel of American respondents that their subsequent mortality is not related to large changes in wealth …

supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, but not near California, which retained a pre-existing state … effect is contingent on political factors related to Mexico's democratic transition. Killings increased substantially more in …

migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on …